Michael Mack, CEO of Syngenta, said some of the debate over food technologies like GMOs is "a Western luxury."
"Two billion people don't have enough micronutrients, a billion people don't have enough macronutrients, two billion people are overweight. So the conversation around such things as technologies, and GMO is just one of many technologies," Mack told HuffPost Live at Davos. "These are all part of the debate, but let's not lose sight of the really big issues that are going on, which is seven billion people are going to become ten [billion], and technologies, and food production systems, and safety, and health are all part of the mix over the long term."
Mack argued that transparency over GMOs "is getting pretty tightly wound together with labeling," saying people in the U.S. have "failed to appreciate" that labeling was always done for the purposes of safety.
"I think it is useful and important for people to imagine, 'where's my food coming from?'" Mack said.
"What people don't appreciate is just how intensive agriculture is around the world," Mack added.
Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting: